Thriller sub genre

The subgenre that we are doing for our thriller is that we are creating a psychological thriller.

Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the thriller genre. This genre contains other elements like mystery and drama. However, our film contains religion.

Thrillers often emphasize intense, physical action over the character's psyche. Psychological thrillers tend to reverse this formula to a certain degree, emphasizing the characters more than the actual plot.

The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds, either by playing deceptive games with the others or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state.

Sometimes the suspense comes from within ones mind where they decide to try and resolve a conflict themselves. Usually, this conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them. These conflicts are made more vivid with physical expressions of the conflict in the means of either physical manifestations, or physical torsions of the characters at play.

5) Evaluation who would be the audience for your media product?

This bag shows that it is a girls handbag because the bag contains things like e.g. Make up, hair brush etc... The way these things can tell what sort of person or who they are is for instance by looking at the credit cards in her bag it shows that this person is earning money and can identify her age group.

However, the type of audience that would be attracted to our film would be young muslim girls.

The lifestyle summary I would give about a hand bag belonging to one of our typical target audience will be that:

Tanzila is a student from City and Islington college. You can tell this by the ID card she carries around in her bag. From this card you can tell that she is a muslim because of her ID picture where she is wearing a scarf and you can tell what age group she is as well. The way you could tell that she is islamic is because she carries around a pocket quran and a small prayer timetable. There is also a gold chain that has a locket on it with an islamic symbol. There are some recipts in her bag that shows she loves to buy make up, bags, scarfs, headpins etc... There is also a small poster in her bag that shows she is religious because it gives out information about a islamic talk which only implies to women.

Location shots

These are a few of our location shots. As our story line was about racism we had to link the london life with the muslim community which in our case was the East London mosque and Regents mosque.

7) EVALUATION-LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMENARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNED IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCTS

We have made alot of progress from doing our prelimanary task to doing our final media product. When we first started filming the preliminary task we found it really confusing because we were having trouble editing things together because the clips were quite different for e.g. whilst one clip was light the othe clip was dark and there were alot of clips that were out of focus too.

When we were editing things together it was really confusing because alot of the clips we did were not as good and there were clips that we needed to film. But because we were not able to film again we managed to put other things in with it to make it longer and it all fit well together.

We also used live type to add the titles in but we managed to do one title and had difficulty adding in the other titles.

Due to technical difficulties we wasn't able to upload any clips from our prelimanary task and our final film 'Times Up.'

8) EVALUATION-AUDIENCE FEEDBACK AND COMMENT

Our film 'Times up' was shown in a local cinema called 'The screen on the green'.

Our film started showing the location shots that we had taken this made the atmosphere mysterious, also the soundtrack that we had created tensed an eery, this made the audience go quiet because there was no action and the story line was unclear.

Towards the end when the characters were being introduced and the effects were becoming scary, the audience were shocked.

They were mostly shocked when they finally worked out the storyline was.

The way they were able to guess what the film is about was when the scenes were all about islam and focused hugely on muslim women.

Also there were alot of shots on a male white killer who was destroying islamic pictures by lighting them up etc... the fire connotates danger which was used throughout the action scene, we decided to not do any physical action because our film was based on phsychological thriller. We also manged to create suspense in our film by introducing the storyline towards the end. The way this was a suspence because it arouses alot of questions in the audiences head as to what the storyline could be then when the storyline is finally introduced it shocked our audiance. This is because the images of the location shots was used to create the suspence and then when the fire just pops up out of now where with a horrible music in the back ground and there was a mosque in negative that was when the storyline came in and it made it intense and captured the audiances reaction to the film.

The way we know our thriller film was a success was that we got a good audience reaction and we managed to do all the things we set up to do i.e. creating suspense, meeting the storyline successfully and successfully creating a psychological thriller. What I was happy about our film was that it was really different from everyone elses and it was on religion.

3&4) Film distribution "EVALUATION"

Another way that films are distributed is through trailers where the audience get a chance to watch bits of the film before it is actually released in the cinemas. We are going to market our film in a film festival as well where we will attract a wider audience than the target audience and attract other companies who will want to distribute the film. 'Shaun of the dead' is an e.g. of a film that was marketed in a film festival they changed the genre from it being just 'ZOMCOM' which is aimed at males, 'ROMCOM' which is aimed at females. In the film festival it was changed to 'ROMZOMCOM' so immediately it was made clear that it was aiming at a wider audience both male and females.

We are going to use convergence to market our film where we're going to converge a mobile and the film together like the 'Star Trek' phone. This will attract more people because it's going to inherit fans for e.g. Nokia marketed the 'Star Trek' phone. People who are a fan of Nokia would be interested in the converged phone and would even be interested in watching the film.

We would also market our media product online like 'Star Trek' did they put their product in trekki websites, facebook, twitter and other sites etc... where they inherited fans giving them a huge audience.

preliminary project

6) Technologies "EVALUATION"

What I have learnt about using these technologies is that there were a lot of things that went wrong for e.g. Camera not charged but there were a lot of things that helped make our film a success such as the softwares for e.g. Final Cut Pro which was used to create our film we were able to add so many different effects such as fade, slow motion, negative effect etc...

2) Representation "EVALUATION"

In our film 'Times Up' We used a variety of clips and images to represent our main story line which is racism. There were clips of people wearing scarfs and there were a lot of religious islamic symbols used as well. This represented muslim women this is because our killer is a white male who only kills muslim women so we were only focusing on women rather than focusing on a muslim asian community as a whole. They are being represented as victims and are socially excluded. The reason why muslim women are victims is because they are an easy target and they stand out more because of their clothing.

An example of this is:

3&4) Film distribution EVALUATION

Film distributers try to persuade audiences by entertaining them and use compelling ways to want to make them want to see the film. Distributers allow the audience to have a little sneak peak of the film before it comes out in the cinemas.

Distributers use various ways to market the film for e.g. they would create posters, banners, trailers etc... to attract the target audience. Distributers market their films online and mobiles as well. However this isn't the only way a film is marketed because it could be marketed through word of mouth.

The way our film would be marketed is that we're going to create posters which would be used to introduce it to the audience and to also attract them.

This isn't the only way we are going to market our media product. We are also going to market the film by creating merchandises and having other companies involved in selling our film so that it would attract a much wider audience i.e The Nokia company. They helped market Star Trek by converging Star Trek and the Nokia phone together.

Filming in Green Street

The first day when we went out filming was that we decided to film in Green Street the reason why we wanted to film in Green Street was because our story line was about racism where the killer is white who only kills muslim women. We filmed in Green street because we needed a busy area full of asian people. The only problem we had in this was the time. We didn't have enough time to film and when we got there we was unable to film anything because we had to go back.

1) EVALUATION-In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

This image is from the movie 'Seven' where the photo's are being cut and scribbled on.

This is similar to the one we have done in our thriller clip 'Times Up' because we are also scribbling and burning photos.

EVALUATION-AUDIENCE FEEDBACK AND COMMENT [PART 2]

We asked the audience of our film how did you find our film, and this is what they came up with

Safety of the Cameras

In the lesson we were introduced to the cameras and about the safety of them. We were taught how to put the battery in the camera, how to put in the memory cards and how to put it on the Tri-pod. We were shown how to put it on focus and how you could change the settings to make the shots look scary. As well as learning about the way the camera should be operated we were also shown and told how we must look after them. We were told to shut the shutter of the camera when we wasn't using it so that it prevents the lense getting dirty. The camera would automatically turn off if its not being used. If its raining the technicians would give an umbrella so that the camera doesn't get wet. Last but not least you should always make sure that everythings working fine before taking them out.

Bait tutorial

In the lesson when we first learned how to use final cut pro we practised using clips of the cafe. We were told to edit them together to create a finishing clip. There were various clips where theres a boy and a man. The storyline was that a poor man comes into the cafe and steals the little boys lunch box. We used match cuts to make the clip flow nicely for e.g we see the man reaching for something and then we get a zoom in of him taking an eaten sandwhich.

No country for old men suspense work

The Cohen brothers use suspense through out the movie to create thriller. The ways they use suspense in the film is that they use various technical elements such as camerawork, sound, lighting, editing etc… The first thing that creates the suspense in the thriller movie is that it has an unexplained plot where there’s a psycho who ends up killing a lot of people and animals for the sake of it, chases a man then finally kills him and carries around an oxygen tank with him throughout. This is an unexplained plot because we don’t really get to know anything about the psycho on why he decides to kill the man even after getting the money and why does he like killing people. This also creates suspense because it’s about a delayed chase sequence and within this sequence others get murdered as well also because we don’t know when the psycho killer is actually going to catch the man or if he’s going to get killed himself. This arouses so many questions in the audiences head already because the killer and victim are so close but yet they’re apart. The audience are kept interested and are drawn in by the continuous suspense throughout the film.

The type of editing that is used is for instance parallel editing is used in one of the scenes where they show two events happening in two different locations both reaching for the same point. We are shown close ups of the tracking device once with the killer and once with the victim. This gives the two characters a link where the killer knows where the victim is and the victim knows where the killer is. In one of the scenes the red light blinks continuously letting the audience know that the killer is on the way this helps create suspense. However, in this scene we then see the light turn of as we see the shadow of the killer fade into complete darkness this shows danger because the light offered a sense of security and was the only way to see and kill the psycho. When the lights turn off there is a moment of silence which is used to build up tension making the scene even more dramatic where the killer is no where to be seen. The audience’s fear builds up until the point where the silence finally breaks when the doorknob shoots out. The audience give a shocked reaction because we see it through the victim’s perspective and can emphasise on how the victim is feeling. The diegetic sound of the gun shooting, smashing off the window, etc… emphasises the whole event and makes it seem more realistic and believable to the audience.

Live type, final cut and soundtrack

In last weeks lesson we practised using three softwares called Livetype, Finalcut Pro and sountrack Pro. These three softwares are important in making the thriller opening. We experimented with these three softwares and worked out the different things they each do. The livetype was used to create intresting titles which would suit the genre. In live type you could put effects, backgrounds etc... on the title to make it stand out.

We used final cut pro next this software is used to edit down clips and make it into a finishing clip with everything added to it. We used one of our practise clips which was a card game so that we got to know how we could edit things and how we could put them together as one finished clip.

The third software we used was Soundtrack Pro which is used to import soundtracks in the clip. We played around with the different sounds and started searching for sounds that suit a thriller genre. Soundtrack Pro creates music which you could use to create various sounds like high tention etc...

SUSPENSE

Suspence is when your in a state or a condition of mental uncertanty, excitment or expectation. The suspence of a person waiting for a decision or an outcome which follows by a degree of apprehention or anxiety. E.g. in 'No country for old men' there is a suspence where the man is waiting in the dark in complete silence with the killer on the other side of the door.

Arlington Road

The clip ‘Arlington road’ shows normality being twisted because it goes from something being completely normal to something really frightening and scary. This is shown through the technical elements which are camera work, sound, mise en scene and editing. The type of camera shots used were for instance, low angel shot this was used a lot to make things appear big for e.g. it was used on a white detached house which made it look big and scary, a lot of horror or thriller films usually use this type of shot to show the twist in normality. The connotations of white are purity and innocence but these types of houses are also used because it is completely isolated from everyone else and so there is no one there to hear you scream this makes it scarier. There is also a soundtrack of children laughing and screaming this shows the twist because the normality would be the laughing of children but the screaming shows the twist in the normality, which then hints to the audience that something’s wrong. The connotation of children is also purity and innocence so by having children involved makes the clip seem more disturbing. The mise en scene is also very normal and innocent because there are shots of the garden, park, dog, flowers, house etc… but the editing of the clip is that every shot is in negative. Meaning that the little and innocent things that aren’t frightening at all like the park and the flowers seem more scary and disturbing with the added negative effects on all the shots.

Art of the title sequence

The font of 'Coraline' is that its a Sans serif font because its more informal and childlike. The font is really modern, calm and friendly because the letters are really smooth and bold. The title says alot about the film because its a cartoon and is very child like because of the use of font and images.

There is an image in the title which is a button to replace the letter 'O' and this makes it effective because you get to know how the characters in the film are like also the title itself is like its been stitched. The colours of the font and the cartoon like features of the button and the title give away alot of how the film is going to be like.